The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Gombe State is to engage the services of 1,052 ad-hoc staff for the conduct of the Balanga/Billiri Federal Constituency by-election fixed for October 22. The INEC Administrative Secretary in Gombe...
The provost of Yusuf Bala Usaman College of Legal and General Studies in Daura, Katsina State, Dr. Muazu Abdullahi Saulawa, has faulted the recent demonstration by the students, insisting that it was due to management’s tough stance on examinatio...
The federal government is committed to partnering with the private sector to ensure sustained growth of the industries and make them globally competitive, the Head of Service of the Federation, Alhaji Isah Bello Sali, has said. Sali stated this in his ...
Hundreds of youths in Mubi, Adamawa State, are now going into commercial motorcycling to beat the unemployment scourge, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has observed.The transportation trade, locally called `achaba’, is increasingly becoming popu...
Academic activities were yesterday disrupted by students of Lagos State University (LASU) who staged a protest against the increment in their tuition fees.The students, who trooped out in numbers to protest the increment, blocked entrance to the ...
Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun has expressed his administration’s readiness to encourage skills acquisition among the teeming population of youths in the state. Amosun who said this while receiving reports of the fact-finding panels o...
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) yesterday raised an alarm over purported plans by opposition parties to cause mayhem and disrupt the local government election that is scheduled to hold tomorrow. Speaking at a political campaign rally held in Amuw...
An early morning disagreement between Catechist Jacob Ndifon Ese of the Roman Catholic Church, Akparabong in Ikom and the Nigerian Police over the stop and check exercise, tagged “operation show your motor particulars” might have caus...
The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) and community leaders in Oyigbo local government area of Rivers State are making frantic efforts to avert a crisis situation following an oil spill that occurred in Izuoma-Ndoki community in the area. The ...
Enugu State Governor Sullivan Chime has said that all the public servants who participated in the last industrial action in the state over implementation of minimum wage would forfeit their September 2011 salaries. Speaking to journal...
The former minister of state for commerce and industry, Josephine Tapgun, has commended General Yakubu Gowon for standing up for Nigeria when it mattered most, saying his role in keeping Nigeria one has made him a symbol of Nigeria’s unity and a ...
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has called on the 36 governors of the country to establish Geographical Information System Laboratories to facilitate the challenges faced in the allocation of lands in the country. The president, who stated this when ...
Marine Committee of the House of Representatives has said that the completion of the dredging of the River Niger will be its major assignment alongside other main priority projects.Chairman of the committee, Hon Ifeanyi Ugwanyi said this at the inaugur...
Slumped against the bloodied legs of a revolutionary fighter, this is the picture which Libyan rebels say confirms that deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi has been killed. The former Libyan dictator was reportedly found cowering in a hole in the gro...
The Sultan of Sokoto and Nigeria’s Amirul Hajj, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, has given the reason why the airlift of pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for this year’s Hajj was staggered. The royal father said that the development was a delibera...